An information processing apparatus includes a memory storing, in an associated form, attribute information assigned to a document and information that indicates whether the attribute information is first attribute information that a user is not enabled to assign or second attribute information that the user is enabled to assign and one or multiple processors configured to perform first search on the attribute information on the document using the first attribute information in a search formula and second search on the attribute information on the document using the second attribute information in the search formula.
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2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the one or a plurality of processors are configured to perform each of the first search and the third search in in an exact match manner and perform each of the second search and the fourth search in a partial match manner.
4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the one or a plurality of processors are configured to prioritize search results in accordance with a number of matches with the first attribute information and a number of matches with the second attribute information.
5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the one or a plurality of processors are configured to set the search results to be none if the number of matches with the first attribute information is zero and the number of matches with the second attribute information is one or more.
6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the one or a plurality of processors are configured to prioritize the search results in accordance with a rule that is different from when the first attribute information is present in the search formula to when the first attribute information is not present in the search formula.
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